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E. H. HUGHES.

Y Refrigerator. I No. 228,759. Patented June 15, 1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICIO REFRIGERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 228,759, dated June 15, 1880.

Application filed March 17,1880.

To all 'whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD H. HUGHES,

a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Refrigerators, Ice-Boxes, Cooling-Rooms, 85o., which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a vertical section of the refrig erator embodying my invention in line x Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a vertical section in line zz, Fig. 1. Fig. .Lis a perspective view of a detached portion enlarged.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several gures.

My invention relates to improvements in refrigerators, Snc., and has for its object economy in the consumption of ice, the condensation and removal of moisture within the refrigerator, and the keeping of air therein in constant circulation.

The invention consists of means for causing a constant circulation of air within the refrigerator, and the condensation and removal of moisture or vapors therein, and economy in the consumption of ice, as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the body. of a refrigerator, constructed of double walls, as usual. B represents the ice box or chamber, which, secured to the walls of the body A, or supported by posts or other suitable means, occupies a position near the top of the body A. Said chamber is separated from said walls, so as to leave between them 'air spaces or flues ab, which communicate with the top of the ice-chamber, the flue b being wider than the fines c, and the side of the chamber B adjacent to said flue being lower than the other sides, so that there is provided a larger opening, c, for communication of the flue b and the ice-chamber B.

Beneath the ice-supporting grating or bars C of the chamber B are drip-guides D, below which are collecting-troughs E, underneath which are drip-troughs F, said guides and troughs being properly secured in position or supported. The guides D overhang the troughs (No model.)

E, which are arranged one above the other,

and incline in opposite directions, and the guides and troughs are in series, as more clearly seen in Fig. 1, the series communicating with a discharge-trough, G, common to all, and having a waste-pipe, H, which connects with a trap, J on the outside of the r efrigerator.

rlhe guides D and troughs E are formed of suitable metal, and the trough F is formed of wood covered with metal, and likewise communicates with the discharge-trough G.

It will be seen that as the ice melts the drip is directed by the guides D tothe collecting troughs E E, and, running from one to the other, falls on the lower end of the trough F,

and thence to the discharge-trough G and reaches the trap J, from whence it may be drawn.

As the temperature of the drip water is about equal to that of melting ice, (320 Fahrenheit,) the guides D and troughs E are made so cold as to materially assist in cooling the air in the body A, otherwise cooled by the cold air from the ice-chai'nber, and, furthermore, causing the condensation of the rising vapors on the said guides and troughs on their under surfaces.

The vapors condensed on guides D drop on the upper troughs E, those on the upper troughs E drop on the lower troughs E, and those on the latter drop on the bottom troughs, F, the said vapors thus being directed to the discharge-trough. There is no condensation on the under sides of the bottom troughs, F, as said sides are wood.

lt will also be seen that as the cold air descends into the body of the refrigerator it forces the warmer air or vapors sidewise and upward to the lines ab, and thus into the ice-chamber, where said air or vapors are cooled and again caused to descend, thus maintaining a constant circulation of air and forcing the air against the ice and cold guides and collect ing-troughs, so as to be condensed, whereby the body of the refrigerator is supplied with dry cold air at all times.

rlhe refrigerator is provided with proper doors, shelves, &c.

Having thus described my invention, what roo l I claim as new, and desire to seeure by Letters ranged in series below the respective guides Patent, is- D, substantially as set forth.

The ice-chamber B, surrounded by passages EDWARD H HUGHES a b, and having one side recessed to form an 5 opening, c, in combination with inclined eollVitnesses:

leeting-trouglis E, drip-troughs F, and dis- J I. BEGGS, charge-troughs Gr, said troughs E F being,` ar` D. C. MAURER. 

